The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-03
A GREAT AND GROWING INDUsTRY-soUTHERN
MANUFACTURES.


GREAT AND GROWING ISDUsTRY--soUTHERN
MANUFACTURES.
II has long been customary for every country
merchant throughout our Southern States to
carry upon his shelves a stock Of dry goods and
groceries entirely purchased in the North be
sides selling bacon and corn brought from the
West, thus sending money away from home for
everything that was needed to supply his trade.
but the strong and enterprising generation of
new men in the South, born and educated at
time when they were forced out of the old ruts
and found il a necessity to work energetically
Tor their living, has changed all this, and these
young men are to-day the ones who are push
ing our section forward with the resistless force
that is destined in a few years to make lis a
most favored people, living in the most prosper
have largely brought about this change
by turning their attention TO developing our
home resources and manufacturing our native
materials, thus giving to us command of the
three great sources of wealth, viz: agriculture,
mining and manufacturing country with
these all developed in due proportions must in
evltably become wealthy and important and
they are all so linked with each other that a new
departure or demand in one is met by new
condition in some other. For instance, the de-
mand for our homemade cotton cloths has
stimulated our home mills until they are almost
without exception more prosperous than any
Others in the country. This, and the increased
foreign demand for our cotton-the best in the
world-caused a demand for more cotton to be
grown, ana JnlS III lJS turn made IL necessary to
find some way TO augment the yield by renew
ing old worn out lands and extending the area
In which cotton could ripen early enough to es-
cape the frosts, while this want was met by the
erection of our great fertilizer factories. and
to-day the crop of Georgia alone is increased
100000 bales of cotton, and the value of another
100000 bales IN corn bacon, etc, or say a total
value of S12,000,000, as a result from proper
fertzing.
At first this demand was met from the North,
but we have now found out that fertilizers can
cheaper and incomparably better than any
where else, and the result is that, whereas ten
years ago IN Georgia s., 000, 900 was sent North
for small quantity of fertilizer, now only
S3,0Oo,0OO is paid for much larger quantity of
a much better article, and two-thirds of this
now goes to our own manufacturers and cti-
zens, thus only leaving Sl.0O0,000 to leave the
State, instead of S5,000,000. as formerly
With fertilizers made in our own State we now
make our cotton and our food, we manufacture
a good percentage of the cotton and keeping
here Sufficient for our wants we then export the
balance, besides sending abroad and to other
States cloth fertilizers, corn, etc. in large and
increasing quantities
What a contrast to a few years ago when,
with fertilizers made far away, we raised cot
ton and exported II all in vain effort to sell it
FOR enough money to send away to pay for our
fertilizers, our food and our clothing and even
then seemed on the way TO the poorhouse, while
now we are last building up happy and pros
porous homes.
The credit of this great change is largely due
TO the many new men at the helm of the fertili-
ger manufacturing industry, but there il no
SINGLE concern to-day that can lay claim to
having done more TO create this industry than
the gentlemen connected with the Baldwin
Fertilizer Company, of this city, a picture of
whose enormous works at Port Royal, s. c..
can be seen ON the ninth page of this issue
These gentlemen are not content with their
present factory but even contemplate nearly
doubling its present capacity next summer.
They propose that there shall not be a
single planter in Georgia. Florida, South Caro-
lima or Alabama who can say next winter that
he knows nothing of their fertilizers. Already
with reputation for making nothing but fer
tilizers best suited for our crops and soils they
propose TO bring themselves more prominently
than ever before the planting community this
tall, by making the most attractive fertilizer
exhibit ever made, at the Piedmont Exposition
in Atlanta, the State Fairs at Macon, Ga, Co
lumbia, s. C., and Montgomery, Ala, the North
eastern Fair Athens Ga, and the Sub-Tropical
at Jacksonville, Fla. Manufacturing as they
do special fertilizers for every variety of crops
they propose To show every detail of the manu-
featuring business, from the samples and first
preparation OF the crude phosphate rock, to-
gether with pyrites for the making of sulphuric
acid, and through the varied ammoniates and
potash salts used up TO the finished product
and the crops grown by its use We, therefore,
advise our readers to go to some or all of these
exhibitions and see what can be done by a
southern company of the New South, managed
heir exhibit will probably be more indicative
81 The new spirit of our people than almost any
other that could be made, and, therefore, more
attractive and interesting to you.
THE oeLETHoRPE SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY.
This company commenced business on Jan. 4.
1887 with very small per cent. of its capital
rock paid up, which has been increased from
lime TO time, and now amounts TO one hundred
thousand (Sl00, 0O0) dollars.
The company does business under it's own
charter, specially granted by the Legislature of
Georgia, with an authorized capital Of five hun
ired thousand (S500000l dollars. Among the
olany features of its charter, the principal ones
are called TO the attention Of our readers. The
savings department is the most prominent. and
grows in popularity daily. as Is shown by the
continued increase in the deposits, amounting
TO one hundred and fifty thousand (S1b0 600
dollars, which with the capital stock is all safely
invested. II Is also "A legal depository for all
funds in litigation, of executors and trustees
and can act as executors and trustees when
created by will.
The personal liability of its stockholders TO
double the amount of paid up capital stock, to-
zether with all other assets Of the company
the well-known, established business reputation
OF its efficient Board of Directors-the Integrity
Of tsy Ulcers, and the liberal interest allowed on
deposits makes THE Oglethorpe" safe and
profitable company In which TO deposit surplus
funds, all or any part of which can be drawn
out a. the option Of the depositor, and also de
srable place 10 borrow money, the method
81 the company Is 20 loan az a low rate of inter
est, on approved security, the company offers
n the citizens of Georgia and her sister States
anrQe found In Of